This little English Sheepdog isn’t ready to wait for that questionably safe hot dog to fall off the kitchen counter. But the other reason I was looking for Quest 2 is because it’s the only way to play Resident Evil 4 VR right now. And good luck getting your hands on one before Christmas, Fuckface. So there you go, Yahtzee’s Holiday Buying Guide: the perfect gift for the hardcore gaming corporate bootlicker in your life. Controllers are fine, they don’t quite have the convenience or satisfactory weight of the Valve Index controllers, but if we compare it to the VR market, the fact that it’s only a slightly more expensive option than having a smartphone attached to yours too Tying your face with the cord from an old bathrobe can compensate for a lot. I also like the feature that lets you switch to a view of the room around you at any time because if people walk into the room while playing you can all touch their butts and pretend it’s an accident. Present Yahtzee has been blinded by fancy VR tech upgrades like turning around.Īt first, I was still clicking the right analog stick to spin bit by bit like a Roomba in a furniture warehouse until I managed to rearrange the old instincts and learn to just turn around. You need a Facebook account to use it and there is basically no way this thing could steal your retinal data for the sinister cyberpunk dystopia to come but be falsely accused of information theft and extortion by corpo enforcement, is a problem for future Yahtzee.

”And second, it compels you to worship big tech, and the mere purchase of it makes you a place on the wall when the revolution comes. Which might as well lead us to the two big drawbacks of the Q2: First, it’s only available in white, and someone hasn’t learned the lesson from the Wii that white is just the puppet phase of gaming peripherals before they develop into “nasty.” yellowish with brown crusts all over the seams. Which would be damn better considering Facebook backs it and those motherfuckers can eat losses like it’s a Thanksgiving dinner. īut Oculus Quest 2 is not only wireless, you don’t have to set up cameras in the room like a very nondescript CIA agent, you don’t need a separate computer or console to start it, and it’s amazingly affordable compared to its peers. And then you always have cables on your head running down your shoulder and if your wife walks in while you’re nailing VR anime females and you twirl around too fast, you run the risk of hanging yourself and that’s a sexual niche at best. But one thing that I always thought was holding it back is you need nineteen cables and the morning to set it all up. I’m still a huge believer in VR: it causes headaches and makes weird things happen in front of your eyes, it’s all the fun of being severely dehydrated without the chapped lips.

I finally got hold of an Oculus Quest 2 this week, which I’ve been particularly intrigued by since I heard it brag about a wireless headset. And do you know what’s good for video game shooters? VR. And do you know what’s good for Sagittarius? Civil unrest and disturbances of authority. I know that a “season” should by law consist of more than three damn games unless you’re Leeds United – someone who understands sport could tell me if that joke makes sense – but they all seem alone Scared someone else’s pre-Christmas release so fuck it, let’s stick some visors up our noses and point people’s heads all day like a rude six year old in a culinary clinic.

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